Sustainability

Reliable service always has been core to every utility’s mandate, but achieving this is becoming more complex in the face of aging infrastructure and increasingly frequent and intense extreme weather events.

Sands has released its 2019 Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Report, which outlines the company’s strategies and progress around its corporate responsibility pillars of People, Community and Planet.

In 2020, the Arbor Day Foundation expanded it's Tree Campus program to include college and university campuses as well healthcare facility campuses. The result of this growth has led to a tremendous impact on the future of our urban forests.

The Arbor Day Foundation’s Energy-Saving Trees and Community Canopy programs are designed to help utility companies, municipalities, and corporate organizations distribute trees to their communities. The core purpose is to lower energy bills...

Twelve leading member companies, including International Paper, from the Forest Solutions Group (FSG) of the WBCSD have issued the first Implementation Report of the Forest Sector SDG Roadmap (SDG Roadmap) released in July 2019.

Today, clean water flows again in Kalomubo, thanks in part to Weathermatic and Fifth Third Bank. For every gallon of water a client saves, Weathermatic provides a gallon of clean drinking water to a community in need by drilling water wells.

Health is the foundation for everything else. For people to thrive. To be empowered. To live the lives they want to live. It helps communities and economies to prosper and is vital to building better, healthier societies.

Since 2005, the Arbor Day Foundation's Community Tree Recovery program has been devoted to providing restoration assistance for disaster-stricken communities. In 2020, the program was able to produce major accomplishments through an adversity-stricken year.

The Tree City USA program has strengthened and sustained urban forests across the country thanks to support of Foundation members and partners. From the Gulf of Alaska to the Gulf Coast, nearly 155 million Americans are living in Tree City USA...